Art and Technology
Allan Giddy’s Earth v Sky project is approaching delivery. I’ve taken our test runs from King St wharf and post processed them for colour. Here is a handy ImageMagick script to stitch sequential images in a vertical stripe.
whale:king st rossetti$ convert ribbons/*.png -append composite.png
If one wanted to append them horizontally instead of vertically one would [...]
Client : Bonita Ely
Location : Jacaranda Square, Sydney Olympic Park.
Job type : Technical bridge.
Year : 2010.
Team : Rob Largent UNSW, Allan Giddy CoFA, Energy Australia
“Thunderbolt is a temporary public artwork created for the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
“Made from a recycled windmill found in Broken Hill, the nocturnal lighting of this [...]
Exhibition: Translations, Curated by Terminus Projects 2007
Location: Bondi Junction Westfield atrium, Bondi Junction, Tower 1
When: July 2007
Zina Kaye installed Hyperplex, an intervention within a sophisticated LED system that disrupted the media saturated environment of Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre with a series of obscure, but subversive conversations. Shoppers and flanneurs were able to peek [...]
Artist listening to airplanes for a show at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
An artist is scanning ACARS at Melbourne Airport, and showing the information on LED signs at a new exhibition in the Australian Centre for the Moving Image opening 8th June 2004.
Zina Kaye makes visible a cross section of the data that [...]
Client : Mari Velonaki – Artist
Job type : Video and stills portfolio website
Abstract : Mari’s site communicates to international curators and arts festivals. Through videos and stills galleries visitors can experience documentation of her favourite works.
Year : 2009
Designer : Mr Snow, House of Laudanum
Link : mvstudio.org
The MCA crew asked us to help fix up a work by Louisa Bufardeci called From Ethnicities to Nations. The trouble was the Salient LED sign they’d acquired only stored about 1% of the actual artwork. The artwork consisted of 140000 phrases mapping peoples ethnicity to their nation of residence using the CIA factbook as source [...]
Client : Wayfarer
Job Type : Technical Producer for realtime game and multimedia event for four performers, four audience groups and passers-by.
Abstract : The audience directs performers to explore and undertake a series of tasks inside the new and largely unknown Carriageworks building, hidden from the audience’s view. The audience tracks their performer’s progress via streamed [...]
http://marynowsky.net/bourgeoisie.html
Wade pulled together a small team to build a prototype semi-autonomous robot in a Victorian dress. Our job was to provide an interface between the web and the controller board. We installed a small webserver on an EeePC netbook. An Adobe Flash socket sent mouse clicks and speech instructions to a tiny Python server that [...]
In December the British Council asked us to do a wireless survey of the Rocks in Sydney. They needed to know that UK artist / gamesters Blast Theory could run their new game Rider Spoke in the area.